His hands tremble, his voice sometimes cracks, his face is deeply lined, and he needs a two-hour rest in the middle of each working day.
At 84, Clark M. Clifford is an old man. And his six-month battle to disprove that, as chairman of Washington's First American Bank, he knowingly acted as a front for the criminal Bank of Credit & Commerce International has taken a visible toll.
But anyone who thought the doyen of Washington power brokers was either pitiable or defenseless was quickly disabused of that idea last week. At a hearing before the House Banking Committee, which is...
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